What are you reading now?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
What a fun read! I'm only about ÂĽ of the way through, but it's great!
It's full of stuff like this (on page 3):
“Hey, Walt. You ain’t gonna believe this shit. . . .” He didn’t sound particularly drunk, but Bob’s a professional, so you never can tell. He was silent for a moment. “Hey, no shit, we got us a cool one out here.”
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
What a fun read! I'm only about ÂĽ of the way through, but it's great!
It's full of stuff like this (on page 3):
“Hey, Walt. You ain’t gonna believe this shit. . . .” He didn’t sound particularly drunk, but Bob’s a professional, so you never can tell. He was silent for a moment. “Hey, no shit, we got us a cool one out here.”
wrote on 6 Jun 2020, 21:58 last edited byWonderful language...
“ It was brain-tanned leather, as soft as a horse’s nose, and the color of butter melting in the sun. The minute glass trading beads were Maundy yellow, a faded mustard tint I recognized as over a hundred years old.”
If you've ever felt a horse's nose, you know what that means.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 02:26 last edited by
I just finished "Moon of the Crusted Snow"
It was an interesting book, but for some reason, i didn't think it was greatly written. It is a very atmospheric book, set in a native village (or rez) in the far north of Canada, in the near present or future. The village has been recently connected to the "outside" world, but something happens, and they lose power, phones, etc. They soon learn that the "outside" world is falling apart.
Like I say, it seems like this was maybe a "rookie" attempt at writing. I read the whole thing and enjoyed it, but it seems like it could have been a bit better.
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wrote on 10 Jun 2020, 06:01 last edited by
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Finished Sinclair's "Lifespan" today. Most engaging and thought-provoking. He tends to get a bit preachy toward the end - I enjoyed the "science" parts more
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wrote on 12 Jun 2020, 16:30 last edited by@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Finished Sinclair's "Lifespan" today. Most engaging and thought-provoking. He tends to get a bit preachy toward the end - I enjoyed the "science" parts more
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That was a fun read. As Aqua points out, it's substantially different from the TV series, but both hold up well.
I've enjoyed Ben MacIntyre's books ever since reading "Operation Mincemeat."
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" The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War."
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wrote on 12 Jun 2020, 16:36 last edited by
Not White Fragility.
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wrote on 15 Jun 2020, 04:16 last edited by
Reread. (I'm rolling a warlock, so, why not. Seemed appropriate.)
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@Aqua-Letifer What was that book you were mentioning on Police Brutality (and I don't mean White Fragility)
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@LuFins-Dad Talking With Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's sort of about that. I'd say it's more about the gaps in our thinking that lead to national news events (like police brutality, sexual assault on college campuses, etc.), and why those gaps exist in the first place.
Listening to the Audiobook is fun. It's much more like a podcast than a reading of the book itself.
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@LuFins-Dad Talking With Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's sort of about that. I'd say it's more about the gaps in our thinking that lead to national news events (like police brutality, sexual assault on college campuses, etc.), and why those gaps exist in the first place.
Listening to the Audiobook is fun. It's much more like a podcast than a reading of the book itself.
wrote on 15 Jun 2020, 17:03 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@LuFins-Dad Talking With Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell.
I really enjoyed that book. I found the part about criminals and recidivism particularly disturbing.
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I’d never read that, Larry, I can’t bear shitting in the woods.
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wrote on 16 Jun 2020, 05:21 last edited by
The pages tear out easy...
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Finished Sinclair's "Lifespan" today. Most engaging and thought-provoking. He tends to get a bit preachy toward the end - I enjoyed the "science" parts more
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That was a fun read. As Aqua points out, it's substantially different from the TV series, but both hold up well.
I've enjoyed Ben MacIntyre's books ever since reading "Operation Mincemeat."
Up next:
" The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War."
wrote on 19 Jun 2020, 21:48 last edited by@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
I've enjoyed Ben MacIntyre's books ever since reading "Operation Mincemeat."
Up next:
" The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War."
Finished it, and it was everything I was hoping for. This is a book that could have been some damn fine spy fiction novel. Totally engrossing, and it reveals the struggle to establish, maintain, protect, and finally exfiltrate the KGB colonel who fed information to MI6 for more than a decade.
I love Macintyre's books. This was just about as good as "Operation Mincemeat."
If you're looking for a great cold-war spy story, look no farther than this.
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Finished the above book which I really enjoyed. I’ve always had a fantasy life of naval service especially interested in the smaller warships as opposed to the huge carriers. So if you are interested in day to day life on a destroyer, it’s a great book and I’d like to read his subsequent books on the geopolitics of the seven seas, and his latest on specific naval admirals.
And I’m also taken with George’s idea of rereading Dune, but I’m putting that on hold because I feel I should strike when the iron is hot and read Bolton’s book. I’m in no way a conservative, in fact I’m deeply liberal (sorry larry, still love ya) but I find brilliant conservatives ( ie George Will or William Buckley or Condi Rice)a pleasure to read because I feel challenged by their erudition and feel what a different world this would be if the Republicans would go back to their true roots rather than this absolute embarrassment of a president who has made me ashamed to be American born.
So the next book is the room where it happened.